Overview
- Practical case research and project on landscape science
- Diverse and multi-disciplines for sustainable development goals
- Understanding sustainability in global-local scales
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This book is not comprised of any general remarks that explain the theories and the methods of the landscape ecology. Already, based on the basic theories of the landscape ecology, the writers have conducted the investigations on the farm villages, the cities, and the coastal ecosystems.And, through the space analyses and interpretations, the structure and functions of the landscapes were analyzed. Of course, in this book, too, the diverse ecosystems and the landscape ecological methodologies regarding the land use have been presented. However, the core of this book focuses more on what role the landscape ecology must play for the materialization of a sustainable society in the future. At the farm villages, the sustainable agriculture will be presented, and, at the cities, the discussions on the green networks and the energies will be proceeded with. Also, regarding the coasts and the seas, a thesis on the safety of the life zones of the residents adjacent to the sea and on the conservation of the island ecosystems will be presented. The sustainable society is a system that is formed by having the sustainable development as a basis. It is considered to be one aspect within a kind of a sustainable process with regard to which the natural world and the human world coexist and are in a symbiotic relationship harmoniously. In order to maintain the biodiversity, the reasonable adjustments of the human activities, like the use of the resources, are absolutely needed. Without the biological resources, the cultural diversity of the human beings, too, cannot exist. Consequentially, recently and internationally, there are a lot of the case examples that express the biocultural diversity by linking the biological diversity with the cultural diversity. In this book, the role of the landscape ecology as an academic link which can connect the two possible, if possible, is highly expected. It is, indeed, the biocultural landscape. It can be said that this concept, also, is the interconnection of the multidisciplinary spaces that must be dealt with in the modern landscape ecology. Through this book, it is intended to present a new directionality which can contribute to the sustainable society at the same time as the organization of the theories and the methods ofthe landscape ecology.
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Concept and Approaches
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System Management and Conservation
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Community Development for Sustainable Society
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nobukazu Nakagoshi (Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan) is Professor Emeritus of Hiroshima University (HU) and lecturing at Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, HU as a Special Appointed Professor from 2017. He is Invited Professors of Ecology at Capital Normal University, Beijing from 2004 and Inner Mongolia University, Huhhot, China from 2008. He obtained a master degree in Plant Ecology at HU (1976) and a degree Doctor of Science (Botany) in Plant Ecology at HU (1979): his thesis dealt with soil seed banks in temperate forests. He has organized scores international symposia on community, conservation and landscape ecologies during INTECOL, IAVS, IALE, ICB, ICLEE, URBIO, ESJ, Eco-summit and EAFES. He published international books Coniferous Forest Ecology, from an International Perspectives (SPB Academic Publishing bv, 1991) with Frank B. Golley, Designing Low Carbon Societies in Landscapes (Springer, 2014) with Jhonamie A. Mabuhay and 298 papers. He was President of Japan Association for Landscape Ecology (2000-2007) and a Vice President of IALE (2003-2007). His current scientific interests are eco-tourism in natural landscapes, sustainable managements of cultural landscapes, and green infrastructures associated with resilience in urban landscapes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Society
Editors: Sun-Kee Hong, Nobukazu Nakagoshi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74328-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74327-1Published: 09 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08965-8Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74328-8Published: 23 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 383
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 83 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape Ecology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Environmental Management, Biodiversity, Conservation Biology/Ecology